• 
  Hiroshi Inagaki

  regizor

• 
  Hiroshi Inagaki

  scenarist

• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Musashi Miyamoto
• 
  Rentaro Mikuni

  Honiden Matahachi
• 
  Kuroemon Onoe

  Takuan Osho
• 
  Eiko Miyoshi

  Osugi, Matahachi's mother
• 
  Daisuke Kato
• 
  Eitaro Ozawa

  Terumasa Ikeda

• 
  Mitsuko Mito

  Oko, Matahachi's wife
• 
  William Holden

  Narrator in original US version
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo)
• 
  Rintaro

  Honiden Matahachi
• 
  Kaoru Yachigusa

  Otsu
• 
  Mariko Okada

  Akemi

• 
  Hideji Hojo

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